The team will consist of four officers including one each from the Intelligence Bureau, the inster-Services Intelligence, the Federal Investigation Agency and the Islamabad police.

The JIT has been tasked to submit a report on the matter within 15 days.

Justice Aamer Faoorq had been the subject of vicious attacks on social media which came from accounts presumably affiliated with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

The social media campaigns had even invited a response from the the law ministry which had called them ‘utterly reprehensible’.

It had also warned political parties from refraining from attacks against national institutions.

The campaign had came at a time when the IHC was hearing an appeal from Imran Khan seeking suspension of his sentnece in the Toshakhana case. The sentence was eventually suspended on Tuesday.